Required reading
The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 19 (The Scriptures).
My summary
This week Dixon teaches us about the Scriptures.
Initially he tells us that the bible is:
(i) written by the command of God;
(ii) written under the guidance of God;
(iii) preserved by the providential care of God.
Then Pierson explains:
(i) a biblical definition of the bible (God breathed);
(ii) a biblical use of the bible (profitable for doctrine; reproof, correction, instruction);
(iii) a biblical method of bible study (searching);
(iv) a biblical motive for Bible study (eternal life, learn of Jesus).
What grabbed me
I loved the illustration from Spurgeon: 'Any method of searching is good, though some may be better than others. The "grasshopper method" by which we take a word or subject and jump from one place to another, collating the texts which have the word or subject in them, is not to be despised. God shook the world through Dwight L. Moody, who was fond of this method. I have learned to love what, for lack of a better word, I call the sectional method, by which one begins at a certain place and goes through paragraph, chapter or book, gathering and classifying every thought. It reminds one of Mr. Spurgeon's saying suggested by the worm-eaten Bible which he found on the table of a Scottish wayside inn. Holding it up to the light, he noticed only one hole through which the light shone. One worm, it seems, had begun at Genesis and eaten through to Revelation, and Spurgeon prayed, "Lord, make me a book-worm like that." Such a book-worm never turns into an earth-worm. It will have wings by and by.'
Amen!
Next week's reading
Read Chapter 20 (What the Bible contains for the believers).
Now it's your turn
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